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- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market. With the shift from hardware to software and services, HCL had slipped behind its Indian competitors and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
the decision-making process. From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy, by Yves Doz, José Santos, and Peter Williamson, focuses on a new breed of global company — the...
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- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
pull the levers of government in order to get a road built, to have a power line strung, or to obtain police protection for a project. Corporations can also empower citizens more directly. By motivating, organizing, and educating people, View Details
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by George C. Lodge
- May 1994
- Case
Colgate-Palmolive: Managing International Careers
Colgate-Palmolive, the U.S.-based consumer products firm, has long emphasized international experience for its managers and has developed a comprehensive policy to manage expatriate assignments. The rise in dual-career families has made some managers reluctant to...
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Business or Company Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Personal Development and Career;
Experience and Expertise;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Rosenzweig, Philip M. "Colgate-Palmolive: Managing International Careers." Harvard Business School Case 394-184, May 1994.
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
multinational enterprises who want to help reduce poverty, what would be some practical first steps you would suggest they take? A: Many big companies are now spending substantial amounts of time and money...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major trade intermediaries and subsequently engaged in foreign direct investment....
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
psychology, marketing, management, sociology, and anthropology. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49031 October 2015 Business and Politics The Multinational Firm and Geopolitics: Europe, Russian Energy, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
priority of policymakers in emerging markets cannot be achieved rapidly nor by government decree. After all, it took the United States a century to achieve its present level of development. Finally, agencies and multinational View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
some of the latest computer-aided tools, managers can dramatically lower the time and cost of changes. Second, they should review management processes. Many companies cannot exploit these new technologies because their management...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
managers are able to e-mail a digital picture of any questionable item to Hong Kong for an instant assessment. But it is Li & Fung’s StudioDirect service that has investors buzzing. For a long time, the company has built a solid...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Whether jetting around the world or working from Colgate-Palmolive's midtown Manhattan headquarters, Lois Juliber has helped her company become a consumer-products powerhouse that does business in 212 countries and derives 75 percent of...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
addition to teaching in the MBA and Executive Education Programs, he chaired the School's Doctoral Programs for almost six years. Postings on four continents with multinational corporations had given Stobaugh a practical foundation for...
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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous), far more value is created by companies like Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet that develop entirely novel business models than by entrenched incumbents, such as P&G or Ford, which struggle to eke out market share...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
entrepreneurial business leaders in the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) that he also headed for many years, is inspired enough by what he has experienced at the Meadows to consider starting a company dedicated to building and...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
prod corporations to put some of their remarkable cash hoards to productive use. Estimates of the cash held by U.S. public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
addressing these and similar questions, the book also examines the role that multinational corporations play in the outcomes that policymakers care about most: economic growth, jobs, inequality, and tax fairness. The Power of Trust: How...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
executive education that led to the development of a number of successful programs, including the Smaller Company Management Program (now the Owner/ President Management Program) and joint programs with Harvard's Schools of Education,...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
profits, as most industrialized countries use. In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is...
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